CURIOUS INDEX, 9/3/08

by Orson on Sep 3, 2008 9:32 AM EDT

Insert "a quarterback running for his goddamn life" here. Jimbo Fisher will not divulge his starter for Florida State's opener Saturday. (Remember: Florida State did not participate in the "ACC, How My Ass Taste? Weekend." They had a hall pass or something.)

Ninth-year starter Drew Weatherford, Christian Ponder, or D'Vontrey Richardson will start. If Richardson starts, Florida State may have to forfeit the game, as we suspect D'Vontrey is just a pseudonym for Xavier Lee, who has been training with Henri Ducard on a Tibetan mountaintop learning to use fear as a weapon, shadow as a friend, and the skinny post as a spear against hesitation.

So you're staying, pretty standard for gameday? Tiger Stadium took damage from Hurricane Gustav that sounds fairly mild compared to what could have happened (on a standard Saturday night, anyway.)

However, Tiger Stadium had some damage, including broken glass and torn awnings over club seats. Debris littered the stands and playing field and the fence surrounding the field was damaged. A large scoreboard above the north end zone also was damaged.

FEMA responded by sending LSU fifteen thousand expired MREs and purchasing eighty tons of concrete and shipping it overnight to San Juan, Puerto Rico. LSU plans to use the MRE's to feed Ricky Jean-Francois for three days and will muddle along fine without outside help.

That Thing I Decided Has Been Reversed Deleted and Revised. Sean Glennon/Tyrod Taylor indecision: HOT 2008 REMIX DROPPIN' NOW, BOOOYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEE!!!

Perhaps Fowler has an allergy to intentionally frayed baseball caps. Blutarsky points out that while Gameday has been to involved (see comment thread for clarification/correction) Florida 27 times (because it's so fun! not because of Borg-demography determining much of what ESPN does!), Georgia and LSU are not in the top ten in appearances. Georgia's absence from this is baffling, while LSU's may be more explicable: the environment is so absolutely hectic on Gameday that we'd wager staging a live broadcast there has to be a nine-ring circus of uncaged animals and rampant logistical curveballs. ("Whaddya mean we have to pay some guy named Laveaux a grand to get the lights on?")

Mr. Stabby, Oklahoma State fan in training. Belated note of football-related violence: Oklahoma football players out for a night on the town did write checks their bodies can't cash, son. [/topgun'd!] Anytime you suffer a "minor stab wound and collapsed lung" and walk away from things, you're in the win column in life.

You know this was not the work of T. Boone Pickens' wind-powered assassin robots, since they would have finished the job and then recycled the bodies in an eco-friendly, economically viable fashion.

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Orson,
On a side note, did you notice the real Orson Swindle made an appearance at the Rep National Convention last night? For a second, I thought he was going to endorse Spurrier as a viable running mate for McCain.

by RFP on Sep 3, 2008 9:46 AM EDT reply actions

So do Fulmer Cup points get retroactively removed following an acquittal, as they do if charges are dropped? Nebraska’s Andy Christensen — of the “throwing the bar owner across the room” fame — has been acquitted of sexual assault.

http://omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10422085

In other Nebraska news — we named a new pedestrian bridge after a one-legged ex-senator. Apparently our sense of irony has been leached out with our accents.

http://omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10422360

by Albino Tornado on Sep 3, 2008 9:46 AM EDT reply actions

It’s likely the horrid threat of an October/November Saturday in the low 70s, bluebird skies, and the spate of obligatory hot 20 year old co-eds that keeps the ESPN crew away from Athens. Who wants that when we can see puff-ball down jackets, slate skies, and sleet in Lincoln or State College instead?

by Bobby Decatur on Sep 3, 2008 9:50 AM EDT reply actions

We all know what Chris Fowler is truly afraid of, Bobby: happiness.

by Orson Swindle on Sep 3, 2008 9:53 AM EDT reply actions

Also, T. Boone didn’t have any life insurance policies taken out on them boys…don’t forget about the death profit.

by spartymike on Sep 3, 2008 10:04 AM EDT reply actions

Actually, I think that Gustav must have cleaned up Tiger Statium a bit. “Broken glass” and “damaged scoreboards” after an LSU home game is just par for the courseness.

by meatybob on Sep 3, 2008 10:05 AM EDT reply actions

Gameday will be in Connecticut Nov. 1 when undefeated UConn takes on undefeated West Virginia.

I’m pretty sure USC will be on the top of this Gameday list in about 2 or 3 years. How come everyone kills ESPN for covering the SEC too much or Notre Dame too much when all I EVER hear about is USC???

by Edsall is God on Sep 3, 2008 10:06 AM EDT reply actions

Ain’t no party like a Sooner Knights party. BYOTI

by Big 12 WarBlog on Sep 3, 2008 10:07 AM EDT reply actions

Gotta cover Williams-Amherst, yo.

by Gen. Stoopnagle on Sep 3, 2008 10:23 AM EDT reply actions

Let’s bear in mind that Shyrod Taylor actually makes Sean Glennon look like a competent passer by comparison.

by Biggus Rickus on Sep 3, 2008 10:30 AM EDT reply actions

Fowler’s delicate palate doesn’t agree with serious Cajun cookin’
He’s much more comfortable over a plate of arugula and mint infused lamb shanks than a plate of crawdads and a tower of onion “rangs”

by Ryno on Sep 3, 2008 10:33 AM EDT reply actions

I think I read somewhere that the Gameday boys won’t got to Athens because of the lack of a 5-Star Hotel.
I’m guessing that’s more of a Fowler thing.

Also doens’t help that their biggest game of the year is usually played at a neutral site.

That said, this reminds most UGA fans that uttering the phrase “Not since the Donnan era…” is usually followed with something that will piss them off.

by The Gentleman Masher on Sep 3, 2008 10:52 AM EDT reply actions

I’m sure you’re already aware of this, but just in case:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/cs-03-doubletakesep03,0,4127690.story
Headline:
“Conference Call Accidentally Routed to Call Girls”

by Reed on Sep 3, 2008 11:23 AM EDT reply actions

#13

I bet Leigh Torbin’s wife checks his outgoing calls from now on.

by blon on Sep 3, 2008 11:30 AM EDT reply actions

Gameday at LSU led to the net being installed behind the set. Corso picked Alabama to win and LSU fans responded by throwing anything they could. One person threw a golf ball at Corso but missed.

by Kevin on Sep 3, 2008 11:38 AM EDT reply actions

“Remember: Florida State did not participate in the ‘ACC, How My Ass Taste? Weekend.’”

LOL ROFLlisberger. Haha.

by bjw on Sep 3, 2008 11:41 AM EDT reply actions

Read much, Orson?

Gameday hasn’t “been to Florida 27 times,” but instead their featured on-site game has had Florida as one of the participants 27 times.

Gameday has only been to Florida 9 times, tied with Michigan, one behind Ohio State’s 10 hostings of Gameday.

Really, with that swanky english and international relations degree, I’d figure your reading comprehension levels would be somewhat higher. Unless of course you don’t read what you actually post and/or write on your blog.

by Matthew on Sep 3, 2008 11:55 AM EDT reply actions

Just think 13: That could’ve been at Notre Dame.

Well, not really, but still. It would’ve been a heckuva lot funnier.

by Gen. Stoopnagle on Sep 3, 2008 11:56 AM EDT reply actions

Really, with that swanky english and international relations degree, Id figure your reading comprehension levels would be somewhat higher. Unless of course you dont read what you actually post and/or write on your blog.

Corrected, clarified, and pointed out in the entry. We blame only our incompetence for the error.

Now go fuck yourself.

by Orson Swindle on Sep 3, 2008 12:11 PM EDT reply actions

Gameday won’t go to UGA b/c they keep insisting on putting the set on the bridge that overlooks the stadium. UGA has refused b/c this is one of the main arteries around the stadium and where everyone goes to meet & buy tix before the games. Neither side will budge so Gameday keeps choosing other locales.

by Ahab on Sep 3, 2008 2:50 PM EDT reply actions

I usually don’t care about Gameday one way or another as the thing has become damn near unwatchable- a sadness for me because it was also so exciting when it first cam out- a great way to get the day started. However, even I smirked a bit about the time the ENTIRE UGA team and crowd was dancing in the stadium last year. Yep, guys you could have been at an absolutely awesome game. Instead, you were in the upper northwest corner of Massachusetts with a student population much more concerned about what they would take for their winter intensive study than the fact there was a football game that weekend. I hope you enjoyed your moral victory….

by Meg on Sep 3, 2008 3:26 PM EDT reply actions

I always thought the aversion to Gameday taping at SEC Venues was because ABC/Disney/ESPN didn’t broadcast the games, and therefore didn’t want to promote games being broadcast on another network (CBS, in this case). Now that they’ve got an eleventy-billion dollar deal with the SEC, I expect we’ll see Gameday at the SEC every week, including that blockbuster Vandy-Miss St matchup…

by Anon on Sep 3, 2008 8:12 PM EDT reply actions